As a Brit looking in on #American politics with some interest and concern for the environment, peace and human rights there are presidential candidates pr potential candidates that have drawn my attention.

@noreallyhowcome Hey thanks for your reply as a Brit looking in I was not sure if my suggestions would be welcome. Also I wondered if there were other progressives who would be worth considering that I had overlooked.

@noreallyhowcome I gave #TULSI2020 the presidency because I think she is stronger on foreign policy than the others. #BernieSanders as VP because of his many years of experience. #AndrewYang2020 in the treasury simply because if you introduce UBI it might be best to be in charge of the finances

@RachelRileyRR promotes the smears and lies that a black #Jewish person Jackie Walker is #Antisemitic Maajid Nawaz perpetuates the lie about the slave trade comments. Walker made a crude personal reply to an individual on FB about the slave trade.

Jackie Walker does not deny the comment but clarifies what she intended to say. It is historically correct! As for the rest of @MaajidNawaz comments. Israel is an apartheid state created by its govt which has allowed and witnessed atrocities against #Palestinians

This does not deny that Israel has been the subject of attacks. It raises questions as to why people were provoked to do so, and concerns about the disproportionate military retaliation. @MaajidNawaz peddles half truths and smears

Not sure how many people give their tweets a title but here goes: "Playing Devils Advocate".Yesterday @Mendelpol posted the tweet that I captured, not that Jack was going to delete it. But because someone replied as to why the comment was #Antisemitic

My first thoughts were bloody hell. Then I read the question posted as a reply. Then it dawned on me have we become so brainwashed that the tweet is being misinterpreted? Is Rodney Adam's Tweet wishing Luciana Berger well?

If we assume it is a threat we also have to assume that Jack, and other supporters of the Israeli regime are aware that #Palestinian children and families are constantly under threat and living in intolerable conditions.

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I don't have time to do a proper Elliot Abrams thread but here is the issue as I see it: Abrams in the 1980s was not just an ordinary Reagan administration official, he was an especially hard-line Reagan administration official

We must remember that Reagan was facing an opposition Congress, which tried to cut off aid to forces that were using repression and murder as tools to achieve their political ends

Abrams would say these were terrorist guerrilla forces. Alas, the peaceful, non-violent activists had mostly been killed by that point. Remember, in El Salvador they killed Oscar Romero, a mainstream social justice Catholic (not even a liberation theologian) while he said mass

2-"Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, facing intense pressure to resign from fellow Democrats after admitting that he posed for a photo in a racist costume as a medical student more than 30 years ago, was calling state Democrats on Saturday to say he did not think it was him in the

3-"picture and that he would not resign. Mr. Northam, who apologized on Friday night, was increasingly isolated, but in phone calls on Saturday morning he said he had no recollection of the yearbook image of two men, one in blackface and the other in Ku Klux Klan robes.

1. Breaking down #QDrop #10: James Comey (JC), countries giving BIG $$ to CFoundation for Haiti earthquake relief, HRC, BC, #MissingKids, and more! I've covered some of this while reviewing earlier drops. I'll link to those as we go.

1. There were/are FBI and MI (Military Intelligence) investigations going into the CFoundation.

2. JC dropped "ONE" FBI case.

3. NOTE: JC had NO jurisdiction over MI investigations or their outcomes. Thank God! JC only referenced one case the FBI had built against HRC. And, it was a complete secret until he revealed it during the 2016 election. He claims he did the right thing.

Russia and Iran are engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at US citizens. Twitter just released over 10 million tweets from over 4500 Russian and Iranian accounts engaged in influence operations dating back to 2009. We've analyzed the data. Here's what you need to know...

Russia's influence operations are far-reaching, aimed at a number of countries. This, of course, includes ops aimed at US voters in 2016, but also includes their own people. 58 Russian-language accounts tweeted regional "news" related to Crimea, Syria, and other military action.

44 US-directed local "news" accounts amassed over half a million followers. By using local-sounding news source names, they were able to dupe Americans from *other* regions to share what they thought was authentic news.

As a historian specializing in the #Holocaust, #Nazi Germany, and #Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of #fascism in Europe.
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I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.

In the 1920s, the US pursued #isolationism in foreign #policy and rejected participation in international organizations like the League of Nations.
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